How can there be an 'unexperienced experience'? Isn't it an impossibility, a contradiction? Not according to the philosopher Jacques Derrida. He uses the term ‘unexperienced experience’ when discussing the experience of imminent death (that is there in suspension and not in actual fact - all simultaneously) in Maurice Blanchot's narrative “The Instant of my Death”. … Continue reading Philosophical Brief: Unexperienced Experience
Spreading the Word: Embodied Time Perception
The way we experience time is subjective. Philosophers, especially phenomenologists, have recognised and offered their accounts of it at least from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Our experience of time or the "lived-time" remains one of the fascinating directions of philosophical exploration. For example, in this article, the author suggests how the idea … Continue reading Spreading the Word: Embodied Time Perception
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It is all right for the mayflies. It is all right if you know you only have another thirty or fourty years. You can afford to think small. You can find it easy to imagine that you are a fixed thing, inside a fixed nation, with a fixed flag, and a fixed outlook. You can … Continue reading Quote for the Day
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